Alabama star ‘learned a lot’ during day with Antonio Brown

In late May, Alabama’s All-American wide receiver was back home in South Florida and got a chance to spend the day with an NFL star who’s from that same area.

Jerry Jeudy was part of a small group of college football players who were there for that session, getting that opportunity to train with one of the top players at Jeudy’s position in the NFL — Oakland Raiders star Antonio Brown.

The group visited with Brown at his home. Brown then took them through a workout at Joseph C. Carter Park in Fort Lauderdale.

They started with a comprehensive dynamic stretching to get warmed up, advanced to drill work and then went through a route running session. Throughout the workout, Jeudy and the rest of the group received guidance and pointers from Brown.

“I learned a lot of stuff with Antonio Brown,” Jeudy said. “Mostly, I learned how to take care of your body and stuff like that because that’s the (most) important thing. Availability is the best ability, so me taking care of my body, that’s the best thing.”

In particular, Jeudy liked the dynamic stretching they had done as part of that comprehensive warm-up.

“He just told me how to stretch really,” Jeudy said. “I learned a lot. It’s crazy. I used to just stretch normal like normal toe touches and stuff like that, but it’s really more like dynamic stretching. And you’ve got to do a lot of running just to really start off. Stuff like that.”

Another Alabama wide receiver from South Florida was there too, redshirt freshman Xavier Williams.

It had started with Jeudy sending Brown a message on Instagram. Brown then messaged him back and extended the invitation to meet up with him for a workout, which ended up happening that day in late May.

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“Just working on me day by day,” said Jeudy, who had 68 catches for 1,315 yards and 14 touchdowns last season as a sophomore. “Working on the little things, the fundamentals, the details of the game, stuff like that to better myself as a player.”

Matt Zenitz is an Alabama and Auburn reporter for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @mzenitz.